Sin Chaeho

Sin Chaeho (7 November 1880-21 February 1936) was a Korean nationalist and anarchist historian and a leader of the Korean independence movement.

Biography
Sin Chaeho was born in Chungcheong, Joseon Korea in 1880, and he became a Korean nationalist and historian during his twenties. He published A New Reading of History in 1908, and he was involved in a failed attempt on the life of Japanese governor Terauchi Masatake in 1911. He went into exile in China and Russia following Japan's annexation of Korea, and he published The Early History of Joseon in 1931. He believed that Koreans and Manchus were ethnically related and that Koreans had an ethnic claim to Manchuria, and he inspired anti-imperialist and pro-independence activists in Korea. He was imprisoned by the Japanese at Port Arthur for his activities and died in Japanese custody in 1936.